Java Annotated Monthly – December 2018

Happy winter/summer solstice and any associated festivals and holidays you may or may not celebrate! This month’s annotated contains a mix of news and talks from the various autumn conferences, and some light reading to tide you over until the new year.

Java News

A lot of the news in this section came from Devoxx Belgium, which seems to be the place to announce things after Oracle Code One, or re-iterate messages from that conference. All the talks from Devoxx were streamed and recorded– see the Tweet below for more details of just some of the presentations.

Java Tutorials & Tips

This month’s tips and tutorials are a mix of classic Java, up-and-coming-not-released-yet Java, and newish stuff you should probably be using soon. For daily tips during December (up until Christmas), see the annual Java Advent Calendar.

Game of Life Lessons: Static Smells– suggests that static methods are a smell. While they are in the context of this article, it’s worth remembering that in the new functional-friendly post-Java-8 world static methods have their own place.